He was sketching in his notebook, absorbed in the intricate details of the cityscape from his window. The scratch of the pencil on the paper was a soothing sound. The apartment felt calm and quiet, just the way he liked it.

"A hedgehog?" Maya was clearly unimpressed. "It's just another thing to take care of. Absolutely not."

Liam sighed, his shoulders slumping slightly. The image of the little creature, curled up in a ball, slowly vanished. The joy he experienced moments ago was replaced with a sense of disappointment. He put his pencil down, the sketch unfinished.

Emotion: at ease

Cluster: Calm / Serenity
PC1 (Valence): 2.84 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -2.60

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion at ease. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 at ease stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the at ease emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the at ease vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
disfrut0.437
enjoyed0.395
affectionately0.392
прият0.388
😊0.388
Suppressed:
S-0.496
L-0.449
C-0.420
vom-0.378
😣-0.370